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@RL_Dane @trashheap another one #FreeBSD on the laptop user here :-).

FWIW OpenBSD has a ports system too: https://www.openbsd.org/faq/ports/ports.html

It's not quite like AUR (I think, not overly familiar with it), in that the ports tree is 'official', though it is separate from the base system. A committer can have a commit bit permission for base but not for ports, or the other way around, or for both, anyone can contribute patches or new ports, but in the end a ports committer has to add them to the tree.

@RL_Dane @trashheap as the #OpenBSD FAQ mentions, it is a set of makefiles containing patches and instructions on how to package software for the OS.
Then with that, both #OpenBSD and #FreeBSD (each with their respective ports tree) produce pre-compiled binary packages which is what most users interact with.

@evilham @trashheap

Ahh, ok. So it's extra packages for the user, but they offload the work of compiling it onto the users' systems to save time and hassle for the OS maintainers, am I getting that right?

Is there a list of how many packages and ports #FreeBSD and #OpenBSD have?

Thanks!!